Jams, juices, jams, compotes - all this can be realized using recipes for the preparation of aronia for the winter. The main rule, which should be guided when preparing berries chokeberry, is to avoid prolonged heat treatment. Consider the recipes of winter blanks.
Gem from black chokeberry for winter
Ingredients:
- chokeberry - 980 g;
- sugar - 1,4 kg;
- water 750 ml.
Preparation
Berries of chokeberry pollen, rinse, rinse, place in a container, pour water and steamed under the lid for 10 minutes. Soften the berries with a sieve. In the resulting berry puree add sugar and cook for 8-10 minutes. Pour the resulting jam over sterilized jars and sterilize the finished product for 20 minutes at 100 degrees, then roll down the jars and send the cooled jam to winter storage after cooling down completely.
Juice made from chokeberry for winter - recipe
The useful and medicinal properties of mountain ash make the housewives harvest this berry in various ways. The easiest way to use ashberry as a vitamin is juice. Below, we'll look at how to harvest black mountain ash for winter in the form of sweetened juice.
Ingredients:
- water - 1.5 liters;
- sugar 980 g;
- citric acid - 2 g;
- chokeberry - 950 g.
Preparation
Prepared berries cook for about 15 minutes, strain the juice obtained, add sugar and citric acid to it, then cook again for 10 minutes. Pour the juice into cans and sterilize it in any way you prefer. Ready to roll the juice, after cooling, store in a dark place.
Chokeberry rubbed with sugar for winter
In the winter, such a procurement will support your body not only with a vitamin reserve, but will also please as a sweet treat during the evening tea drinking.
Ingredients:
- berries of mountain ash - 650 g;
- sugar - 650 g.
Preparation
Wash and cleaned berries dry and blend together with sugar blender. Transfer the mixture into a saucepan and heat to 60 degrees, stirring the berry preform so that the sugar crystals dissolve. Transfer the berry mixture into sterilized jars and place the cans, covered with lids, in a pan with water for sterilization. Cover the pan and sterilize for 20 minutes. After that, roll the cans and let it cool in an inverted form.
How to keep chokeberry for winter?
There are a lot of ways to conserve aronia, they are simple and accessible to any hostess. The main thing is to choose the one that suits your taste. Before you save the black arctic mountain ash for the winter, be sure of ripeness and quality of the picked berries, the season for which begins in September. The greatest content of nutrients, the berries are recruited to the first frost. That's when it can be collected and used in a dried and frozen form, boil compotes, jams, jams, juices and insist alcoholic beverages.
For drying, the washed berries are laid out in one layer on paper and periodically turned over. Do this in a warm, well ventilated room. In the dried up form, the mountain ash brushes are hung in a cold dark place where the storage temperature is not more than 5 degrees, then fresh berry will always be at hand.
Preserves its nutrients chokeberry and frozen. Before you freeze chokeberry for winter, make sure the integrity of the berries, then go and rinse them thoroughly. Dry the berries, spread them on a towel. Prepared berries are frozen in two stages to protect them from sticking together. Initially, we place the berries separately from each other and slightly freeze, and then transfer them into sealed bags for deep freezing.